Pacing options in the adult patient with congenital heart disease

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mond, Harry G.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Karpawich, Peter P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Futura, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Know the anatomy
  • Transvenous pacemaker implantation
  • The pulse generator or ICD pocket
  • Epicardial or epimyocardial pacing
  • Problems with right ventricular apical pacing
  • What type of lead fixation device do I use?
  • Consider steerable stylets or catheters
  • Safety in numbers, the belt and braces technique
  • Do old leads need extraction?
  • Stenosed venous channels
  • Use of the coronary venous system
  • Consider growth in teenagers
  • Congenital atrioventricular block
  • Congenitally corrected L-transposition of the great vessels
  • Congenital long QT syndromes
  • Atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale
  • Persistent left superior vena cava
  • Dextrocardia
  • Ebstein's anomaly
  • D-transposition of the great vessels
  • Septal defects including tetralogy of Fallot
  • Repaired Ebstein's anomaly
  • Univentricular heart.